This man destroyed the Pittsburgh Crawfords by recruiting all of its best players, starting with Satchel Paige, to play for his personal baseball team
This man destroyed the Pittsburgh Crawfords by recruiting all of its best players, starting with Satchel Paige, to play for his personal baseball team. Morris Ernst defended this man in his trial for the kidnapping and murder of Jesus Maria Galindez, a Columbia University professor who spoke out against this dictator's regime. Popular support for this dictator waned after the murder of the Mirabal sisters by his secret police, the SIM. The June 14 movement attempted to overthrow his government with the help of the newly-formed Castro regime; this led to CIA involvement in the plot that ultimately assassinated him. This man attempted to "whiten" his country by inviting Jewish Holocaust refugees and instituting the doctrine of antihaitianismo, culminating in the 1937 massacre of people who could not pronounce the Spanish word for "parsley." For 10 points, name this dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961.
This man destroyed the Pittsburgh Crawfords by recruiting all of its best players, starting with Satchel Paige, to play for his personal baseball team.
Rafael Leonidas {Trujillo} Molina